I bought this cart at a flea market, it seems the be coming from an old video store which would explain this damn sticker. The white part is plastic and the bar code part seems to be made of metal. Removing them should not be a problem but is there any way to remove them without ruining the back sticker? Alcohol and other tricks don't seem to be of any help.

I've tried using just the creme developer without any additional ingredients, but it causes "blooming" in the plastic too easily. Maybe I'm just not doing it right, but whenever I've tried it I've had bad results, even with very even coverage and a UV lamp. My homemade retrobright doesn't work that well either, but at least it doesn't cause blooming or bleaching.

Newfag here.I have a box NES, back when I was young and dumb I bought a new 72 pin connector hoping it'd work but it never did. I still have my old connector on me, do I just give it the clean like the OP link says? It has the blinking light problem..

>>2445483I think I recall the Retr0bright (or however it is stylized) mentioning that those hair creams can have extra chemicals that aren't good for the plastics. As for results, put the part outside for several hours on a sunny day in a non-shaded area, covered loosely in thin plastic wrap. Turn it every once in awhile and make sure that the RB isn't drying out, and if it is, take it inside.

just did this mod on my genesis model 1 VA2, worked perfectly except it was stupid quiet. Had to change one more resistor and ended up with an even louder output than before the mod. Which is what I wanted. Now to recap this thing I guess, but it works fine.

for those wondering I had awful distortion on some games, sounded like this:

hopefully by the time I have to deal with those things again I won't have a poverty soldering iron. But yeah I only had 2 to remove and didn't know it would suck so much - the resistors came off easily. For one of them I ended up putting some new solder on there and heating both sides at once, it came off after that.

I've been on the options screen of panzer dragoon on the Saturn twice in the last few days just leaving it on while I do other stuff when there's been a snap sound and the picture has gone bad then comes back to normal. Not sure if it s my bvm crt making the sound or the game. Is this a known bug with the game or my TV? Kinda worried

>>2448297>Lopped off the 10NES chip and now the flashing screen is gone. Now I just gotta boil the pin connector and I should be gold.That first step is only good if the lockout chip itself is bad. Doing that only invites more problems down the line, because now you won't have an indicator that you're getting bad contact.

Is there any way to test a dreamcast's laser without an official game disc? I don't actually have any games to test this sucker on, but I'm pretty sure the laser is misaligned, as I dicked with it way back when I fixed the controller ports.

I've read what the internet has to give on the NES "wavy lines" problem and there doesn't seem to be a majority consensus. Some say its the power supply, others the caps, still others thinsg like the games itself or the rca proximity to other sources causing interference...Does /vr/ have the actual fix?

Also, if I want to run RF with an NES do I need an actual active cable line from the wall?

>>2451641Not sure on the wavy lines or what exactly that looks like. My Super Famicom has some wavy interference in RGB I think and I just figured it was a capacitor issue. As for RF, no. Just need a corresponding connector on your TV.

>>2454908How many games have you tried? You can clean the cartridge port by (my memory from other suggestions that I have tried) using a dental pick to clean out hair and whatnot then taking a credit card or similar, pulling a white thirty tightly over a clrner, dipping the corner into some isopropyl alcohol, and then inserting-removing the shirt + card from the slot several times in each part of the slot. It could also be dirty pins on the carts.

>>2454980Just some bass fishing game, all that came with it, I'd have to order one haha, I sold my copy of mario kart a week before I got a SNES damnit. Goodwills and thirftshops around here don't carry older stuff often anymore.I may try salvation army, is it any better?

>>2454996I think they are referred to as game bit or similar. You can get a set of two, one for larger ones and one for smaller, on Amazon (or at least you used to be able to - haven't checked lately). Otherwise you can melt the end of an empty plastic pen shell and mash it on one screw to make a driver, but that can be tricky and not meant to last, so I wouldn't suggest doing it unless you can't get the proper tools.

Even less hyped if the project is reinventing the wheel. I'll take an open source project with lots of community support over some dude who might finish it some day any time.But I'm guessing the guy's not retarded and is, in fact, basing it off of what's already available.

>>245739690% or higher concentration isopropyl alcohol, thin cloth, and an old credit card. You'll have to cut the card into a thinner strip if you want to clean the expansion slots. You could also get a hold of an old SNES cleaning kit.

I recommend Brasso only as a last resort if isopropyl alcohol doesn't work.

>>2457410Only 70%CVS didn't have 90. Neither did the grocery store I went by. Seems rare in this area, I suppose Walmart will have it.The SNES functions right now, lights up, flicker, one time so strange colors appeared on the screen. What are the chances me cleaning the cartridge slot will even help? It feels loose. Only tried one game on it cause that's all I have

>>2457416 Clean the game and the cartridge slot, many times each. Clean each until the q-tips (cart) and cloth/shirt (console) come out clean. I would say that chances are good that it will help, and even if the issue is something else, it should be done anyway.

>>2457451Just make sure that you have cleaned the cart to the point that the q-tip itself is coming out clean after using it to clean the cart, as in you douse the q-tip in alcohol, rub it firmly on the pins, and then after the rubbing the q-tip has no black or grey residue. Only once you reach that point for each pin can you really rule out it just being a dirty cartridge.

Most scene releases you find nowadays have been fiddled with to run on both NTSC-U and PAL region boxes, and usually have VGA support too. So you usually don't need a bootdisc for those. Actual imports, though, you need good ol' Utopia.

And yes, you need to region patch Saturn games, but thankfully Saturn Region Patcher is a quick & easy process that also helps you check disc images. Sega CD I'm honestly not sure on because I've yet to pick one up. Gonna be on the hunt for one this summer, actually.

I've got an Intellivision that has a) flickering picture b) sound cutouts and c) color going to black and white. I've cleaned the console as a whole, dusted the insides, cleaned the slot and the cartridge and none of that worked (though it did fix black screens). I swapped RF cables (two NES ones) and same problem. Am I correct in assuming the RF modulator is busted? If it is, how do I fix/replace it?

Does the "The save file is corrupted!" message in Pokemon Crystal mean the battery is dead? I know my Gold and Silver have dead batteries because the save doesn't work, but they don't give said message.